Grand Challenges for Engineering: Enhance virtual reality
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| Audience/Grade: | High School Junior -Continuing Education 11-Continuing Education |
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Computer Engineering Computer Science Electrical Engineering |
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Community - Discussion Forum/Mailing List/Newsletter |
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Organization:National Academy of Engineering |
| Description: | One of the Grand Challenges in Engineering identified by the National Academy of Engineering. The website has a description of the challenge, along with video clips that highlight specific problem areas. "True virtual reality creates the illusion of actually being in a difference space. It can be used for training, treatment, and communication. To most people, virtual reality consists mainly of clever illusions for enhancing computer video games or thickening the plot of science fiction films. Depictions of virtual reality in Hollywood movies range from the crude video-viewing contraption of 1983�s "Brainstorm" to the entire virtual universe known as "The Matrix." But within many specialized fields, from psychiatry to education, virtual reality is becoming a powerful new tool for training practitioners and treating patients, in addition to its growing use in various forms of entertainment. Virtual reality is already being used in industrial design, for example. Engineers are creating entire cars and airplanes "virtually" in order to test design principles, ergonomics, safety schemes, access for maintenance, and more." |
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| Keywords: | virtual reality |
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Grand Challenges for Engineering |
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| Related ABET Criteria: |
(c) Design a system, component, or process (e) Identify, formulate, and solve engineering problems (h) Understand global, economic, environmental, and societal context |
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Website from the National Academy of Engineering. "With input from people around the world -- much of it on this website -- an international group of leading technological thinkers were asked to identify the Grand Challenges for Engineering in the 21st Century." I have included these grand challenge resources as assignments in my freshman design and analysis class. |
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Medium |
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Medium |
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| Publication Date: | August 2008 |
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WWW |
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Free |
| Download URL: | http://www.engineeringchallenges.org/cms/8996/9140.aspx |
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IEEE LOM Record |
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NEEDS
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